Sadly, New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Hueytown is a total loss after a fire on August 5, 2022.
Flames are still a factor in the basement under all the wreckage, and firefighters have had a hard time getting water on the remaining embers.
They used foam, hoping to put an end to the flames.
“You can see the flames from a block before you got here,” said Melvin Chappell, who is Chairman of the Deacon Ministry
Firefighters were at the church with in minutes, but things escalated quickly.
“When the first units arrived on scene they had heavy smoke showing out of the gables. They tried to make entry. They went in but there was so much they were pushed back out when the roof started to collapse. At that point we just had to go to a defensive attack and just try to get water on the fire” said Hueytown Fire Marshal Brannon Clark.